28 Jul 2014
Vikie Shanks’ TV interview with Ireland AM. Vikie has been generating a huge amount of coverage for her inspiring new memoir Unravelled, recently published by Thistle.
28 Jul 2014
The tragic events of Sonia Oatley’s shocking new memoir Bye Mam, I Love You were serialised this weekend in the Mail.
28 Jul 2014
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is The Gold Mohur Tree, the powerful debut novel from Joyce Mackenzie. For one day only, the book will be available for just 99p.
25 Jul 2014
Desmond Seward’s Richard III has had a great review from BookReporter.
‘A colorful, authoritative biography that offers a definitive picture of both the age and the man.’
25 Jul 2014
Pippa, the daughter of Unravelled author Vikie Shanks, has written a blog for Gransnet.
Understanding autism ‘We hear from 13-year-old Pippa Tompsett, diagnosed as autistic when she was three - and perfectly happy about that ever since! While it’s hard, sometimes, for others to understand exactly what being autistic means, Pippa is determined to climb the mountain that is social understanding.’
24 Jul 2014
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diaries Of Charlie May was serialised in the Express at the weekend.
Charlie May’s War: Secret diary of a WWI officer who longed for home
24 Jul 2014
Gurpareet Bains’s The Superfood Diet to Holland
James Davies’s Cracked to Finland
Timothy Good’s Earth to Germany
Diana Kader’s Hear My Cry to Poland
Geoff Roberts’s Stalin’s General to Turkey
Desmond Seward’s The Hundred Years War to Korea
Natasha Tormey and Nadene Ghouri ‘s Born into the Children of God to Poland
24 Jul 2014
UK rights in Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II have been sold to Icon. Penguin publish in the US in February.
24 Jul 2014
Congratulations to Casey Watson whose The Girl Without a Voice is No.9 this week in the paperback non-fiction list.
24 Jul 2014
Anthony Stancomb’s amusing expat memoir Under a Croatian Sun is the number one cricket book on Amazon.